miasm's Usage Examples:

miasma of despair What, then, is to be done?Owing to the quantity of tannin they contain, no harmful miasma exhales from the Irish bogs.

"The miasmatic exhalations caused by the sun playing on stagnant waters after the floods give rise to the "Sennar fever," which drives even the natives from the plains to the southern uplands.

Owing to the quantity of tannin they contain, no harmful miasma exhales from the Irish bogs.

The dampness and miasma, to which so many of the early settlers' fatal "chills and fever" were due, have practically disappeared before modern methods of sanitary drainage.

The unhealthiness of the city is chiefly due to want of proper drainage, impure drinkingwater, miasma from the disturbed rubbish heaps, and contaminated dust from the uncleansed roads and streets.

When they are five or six they are driven into the public school to infect it with the moral miasma of their lairs.

The old theory of paludism or of a noxious miasma exhaled from the ground is no longer necessary.

The miasmatic exhalations caused by the sun playing on stagnant waters after the floods give rise to the "Sennar fever," which drives even the natives from the plains to the southern uplands.

MALARIA, an Italian colloquial word (from mala, bad, and aria, air), introduced into English medical literature by Macculloch (1827) as a substitute for the more restricted terms "marsh miasm" or "paludal poison.

miasma of corruption and falsified the books to keep the bubble going.

The water must in ritual washings run off in order to carry away the miasma or unseen demon of disease; and accordingly in baptism the early Christians used living or running water.

The absence of swamps, the porous nature of the soil, and the extent of cultivation account for the freedom of the island from miasma.

He wished to complete his exploration of the upper range of Lebanon; he remained, therefore, with Henriette to affront the dangerous miasma of a Syrian autumn.

Synonyms:

ambience, atmosphere, miasma, ambiance,

Antonyms:

cyclone, anticyclone,